An Overview of Blood Disorders
Blood disorders involve problems in our blood or bone marrow. After birth, our bone marrow (fatty area in the middle of our bones) is the primary source of new blood cells. Often, problems with the way our bone marrow produces blood cells results in blood disorders. Blood disorders can occur from any of the four parts of our blood:
1. White blood cells—which help fight infections.
2. Red blood cells—which carry oxygen to tissues.
1. Platelets—which help stop bleeding.
2. Plasma—which carries various components including procoagulant factors (that help stop bleeding) and anticoagulant factors (that prevent clot formation).
Elevated white blood cell counts are called leukocytosis and low counts are called leukopenia. There are five types of white blood cells, all of which may be affected:
1. Granulocytes (also called neutrophils or segmented neutrophils)
2. Lymphocytes
Monocytes
Eosinophils
Basophils
Many medical conditions fit under the broad diagnosis of blood disorder yet vary greatly. In general, when physicians refer to something as a blood disorder, they are implying that it is not cancerous (benign).
Some blood disorders live in a space between benign and malignant (cancerous)—sometimes referred to as premalignant—and may evolve into cancer. Leukemia is generally not included in the broader term of blood disorders as it is a cancer of the blood/bone marrow. Blood disorders are predominantly seen by hematologists—physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of problems in your blood and/or bone marrow.
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